Anne Innis Dagg

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Smitten by Giraffe:

My Life as a Citizen Scientist

"When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes. In Smitten by Giraffe, the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns."

Upcoming for children:

5 Giraffes

"The latest in the 5 Animals series, with an introduction by Rob Laidlaw, 5 Giraffes profiles five unique giraffes from both captivity and the wild. Accompanying the five giraffe profiles is information on their diet, social life, and chapters on some of their more unique aspects, like the giraffe's unusual body. "

Giraffe: Biology, Behaviour and Conservation

"Drawing together the latest research, this is a
detailed exploration of current knowledge on the biology, behaviour and
conservation needs of giraffe. Dagg highlights striking new data on a
range of topics, discussing the problems and solutions associated with
zoo captivity along with current conservation efforts and their
outlook."

Animal Friendships

"Research into social behaviour in animals has often
focused on aggression, yet members of social species are far more
likely to interact with each other in a positive way. Animal
Friendships explores non-sexual bonding behaviours in a range of
mammalian and avian species."

Love of Shopping is not a Gene

"Focusing on the problems present in Darwinian
psychological research, Innis Dagg, an eminent and outspoken critic of
this ideology, first presents an overview of the theory and its
popularity both among professionals and lay people. Then she examines
concepts of social behaviour, based on 'genes vs. culture."

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The Feminine Gaze

"Many Canadian women fiction writers have become
justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction?
When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such
non-fiction authors better known, she expected to find just a fewnin
dozen. To her delight, she unearthed 473 writers who have produced over
674 books"

Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure

"In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist
with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa.
Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly
chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent
studying and documenting giraffe behaviour."

The Social Behavior of Older Animals

"At once instructive and compelling, this
theme-spanning book reveals the complex nature of maturity in scores of
social species
and shows that animal behavior often displays the same diversity we
find in ourselves."